FADO E-BULLETIN
December 2024

1. FADO PERFORMANCE WALK-AND-TALK (PART 2) WITH MARK SO
   DATE DECEMBER 7, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE FADO

FADO’s Walk-And-Talk performance series presents
part of the ramble that remained in the end without by Mark So

Saturday, December 7
7:00pm doors / 7:30pm performance

The Commons @ 401, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
All welcome / free admission / accessible building + washrooms

So’s project culminates in a unique live presentation at FADO, featuring a performative presentation of the writing and recordings he has made during walks in Los Angeles and Toronto. To catch up on the walking, recording and posting that So has been doing during the month of November, head over to FADO’s Instagram @fadoperformanceartcentre

part of the ramble that remained in the end without explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice: daily list-form notebook writing and a tapeloop of recorded fragments, both accumulated from reading. The reading, writing, and recording aspects of the work are free to diverge and intersect across a kind of roving open privacy, producing a coherent field of potential performance or realization marked by characteristic modularity and switches between discrete modes of action. This work stems from So’s longstanding use of field recordings and performed readings, but with a deeper connection and contiguity with wherever he happens to be working—creating an evolving register not only of recorded and written surfaces, but his movements through a changing field.

Walk-and-Talk is curated by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez.

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2. TO WATCH THE RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY BY CASON SHARPE
   DATE NOW
   LOCATION FADO’S WEBSITE
   SOURCE FADO

On September 21 & 22,  Cason Sharpe performed four public ribbon-cutting ceremonies to commemorate the partial unveiling of Alexandra Park, a neighbourhood that’s been under re-construction for the past decade. Each ceremony occurred in four different locations around Alexandra Park, bordered by Dundas Street West, Augusta Avenue, Queen Street West, and Cameron Street in Toronto. Combining the civic rituals of the walking tour and the ribbon-cutting ceremony, this series of performances turned a neighbourhood stroll into a travelling circus, a spectacle through which we may catch a glimpse of an ever-changing city.

The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony: A Travelling Circus by Cason Sharpe was the first project in FADO’s newest performance series, Walk-and-Talk.

ENJOY the documentation from this project on the FADO website HERE.

Photos by Henry Chan. Video by Peppercorn Imagine.

3. EVENT BONE 2024
   DATE NOVEMBER 29–DECEMBER 12, 2024
   LOCATION BERN, SWITZERLAND
   SOURCE BONE

BONE 2024
PerformanceFestival | 26th Edition
Bern, Switzerland

ARTISTS
Jenna Marvin, crazinisTartisT (Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi), Marcella Nuerkie Akutteh, Stefan Fasel aka Balanza LeGendery, Kollektiv Quellpunkt, Eva Schneuwly & Nina Hsu, zozoTransistor, Morea Gërxhaliu, Jasmin Kiranoglu & Matthias Müller, Steppeh Barthy Beninilli, Mariia Kramar, Adèle Pham-Minh, Arash Azarm, Francesca Romana Maeschi, Alissa Tschanz, Ekan Onaiwu, Nelly Jüsten & Sanja Lukanović, Hannah Billich & Rea Siegrist, Janosch Perler, Nelson Schaub, Beth Dillon, CHAD, Olivia Talina Schneider & Kim Alison Greminger, Mirko Winkel, Sinje Grenzdoerffer & Prisca Pfammatter, Ntando Cele, Lucie N’Duhirahe & Stéphanie N’Duhirahe, E-F-U-A Born On A Friday, Germaine Sophie Sollberger

The world is on fire, it is flooding, storming, and eroding. Simultaneously, the upheaval is attacking common constructs of our Western society and creating waves of fear and insecurity. In the search for a position of performance art in this zeitgeist, this year’s international performance festival BONE aims to let go and slide down the slopes of normative thinking and acting, deconstructing melting permafrosty premises such as city/country, man/woman, native/foreign or Global South/North and offering unfinished and process-like performative approaches.

The form and style of the festival also lets go and slips into unknown outlets. The usually 3-day festival stretches over 10 days, allowing different positions and artistic acts, encounters and experiments spread across venues that are somehow peripheral.

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4. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ON LAND/SCAPES
   DEADLINE DATE DECEMBER 7, 2024
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Performance Research
Volume 30, Issue 4: On Land/scapes

Deadline for submissions: December 7, 2024
Issue Editors: Gigi Argyropoulou, Peader Kirk, Aparna Nambiar

This issue proposes a focus on land/scapes as urgent and productive for discussing, analysing and making performance today. Land/scapes are considered as an active element and as a focal point for understanding emergent practices at the intersection of politics, ecology and performance. To think with/On Land/scapes is to challenge the hierarchies of a linear understanding and the validity of an external point of view. Being in and On Land/scapes means recognizing ways of making that challenge the means of domination, and to institute modes of doing and thinking that recognize dependencies. […]

Please visit the Performance Research website for the full call for submissions text.

Schedule:
Proposals: Outcomes January 2025
First drafts: April 2025
Final drafts: September 2025
Publication: December 2025

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5. EVENT MOVING MATERIALS: QUESTIONS IN RELATION
   DATE NOVEMBER 14–DECEMBER 8, 2024
   LOCATION TORONTO, CANADA
   SOURCE LO BIL

Moving Materials: Questions in Relation
November 14–December 8, 2024

Ignite Gallery @ OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

ARTISTS
lo bil
Simla Civelek
Paul Couillard
Rita Camacho Lomeli
B. Solomon

Curated by lo bil

Performance artists develop their relations with non-human materials in the process of making sculpture, creating visibility for forces that go unseen. Practicing between bodies of land and water, lived history and time, we move, layer, imprint and question our sense of ever-changing trace and impact on our material culture.

EXHIBITION: Monday to Saturday: 11:00am–6:00pm & Sunday: 12:00pm–7:00pm

PERFORMANCE EVENT: December 4 @ 4:00pm
Performances from Shima Raeesi, niki Kostikian-Djibelian, Nyda Kwasowsky, Isaak Fong, lo bil, Marilyn and Lenny

CLOSING with PERFORMANCES: December 8 @ 4:00pm
Artists showing sculpture in the exhibition will be present; closing event with performances

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6. PERFORMANCE A MOMENT IN TIME – SIGNED BY ANNA BERNDTSON
   DATE DECEMBER 8, 2024
   LOCATION LISMASSOL, CYPRUS
   SOURCE ANNA BERNDTSON

Beyond DisDance Performing Arts Festival presents
A Moment in Time – Signed by Anna Berndtson

Synergeio Theatre, Cyprus
December 8, 2024

A sign language integrated, one-to-one performance where a dialogue is possible but not necessary.

Beyond DisDance is the first performing arts festival in Cyprus that is dedicated to promoting local as well as international inclusive and accessible performance works. This year, 2024 the festival will be organized for the second time with the support from the local deputy of Ministry of Culture. The Festival aims to contribute to the existing discourse in Cyprus that concerns the diversity in performing arts. In addition, it aims to offer a safer space for people with disabilities to feel welcomed on stage as performers or/and as audience.

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7. EVENT IX VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK 2024
   DATE DECEMBER 12–15, 2024
   LOCATION VENICE, ITALY
   SOURCE VESTANDPAGE

IX Venice International Performance Art Week 2024
Portals and Constellations

European Cultural Centre (ECC)
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
December 12–15, 2024

LIVE PERFORMANCES
Irina Baldini (IT/FI)
Anne Bean (UK)
Mykhaylo Barabash (UA)
emilyn claid (UK)
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha (UK/NG)
Saúl Garcia López (MX/NO)
Roman Haideichuk (UA)
Sylwia Hanff & & Alexandre Yterce (PL/FR)
Aurah Jendafaaq (AZ/DE)
Jamila Johnson-Small (UK)
Weronika Lewandowska (PL)
Ash McNaughton (UK)
Ostap Manulyak (UA)
Amy Mauvan (NZ/GB)
Douglas Quin (US/FR)
Malgorzata Sady (PL)
Joseph Morgan Schofield (UK)
Yaryna Shumska (UA)
Marcel Sparmann (DE)
Emily Welther (US/DE)

The IX Venice International Performance Art Week 2024, titled Portals and Constellations, addresses the theme of social connection through the lens of performativity. In times of crisis, individual behaviours are transformed by options and alternatives that seem drastically reduced, obstructing prospects for more inclusive futures. Portals are thresholds of critical utopianism, liminal places between the here and now and the not-yet-here. They are entry points to other worlds and new ways of being. Portals can be those of a castle, a cathedral, a palace, or virtual, symbolic gateways. They provide access to other loci and distant places that pertain to our reality and daily life. In this sense, through performance, artists imagine, create, and enable desirable alternative trajectories that indicate, albeit partially, what our societies and humanity need. We access portals by abandoning prejudices to expand awareness and perception, receiving inspiration, and treading new, stimulating paths. Finally, crossing a portal means trusting that change is possible.

And yet, taking action to improve living conditions requires the design of new philosophical constellations to make interrelationships more proactive and constructive between people, theories, problems, and ideas. As Walter Benjamin intuited, philosophy must become performative, maintaining that ideas are to phenomena as constellations are to stars. Ideas, after all, are nothing but noble phenomena that determine the nexus of their relationships through the work of those who support them through interaction with one another. Therefore, communication, cooperation, union, and people’s networks are used to respond to contemporary emergencies, combat existential loneliness, and deconstruct recurring patterns of suffering.

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8. EMPLOYMENT PERFORMANCE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 13, 2025
   LOCATION CHICAGO, USA
   SOURCE MARK JEFFERY

Performance School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Full Time Tenure Track Hire
Fall 2025

The Department of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor position to begin August of 2025. Salary is competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship and current academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing.

The Department of Performance at SAIC is unique in the United States, bringing a performance and performance studies curriculum to both undergraduate and graduate students in an interdisciplinary art school setting. Building on a foundation of experimentation, the Department of Performance evolves in relation to new developments inside and outside the field of performance, and aims to be responsive to new ways of seeing and understanding the world in the 21st century.

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9. OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION P.O. BOX 391106 BY JIMENA BERMAJO
   DEADLINE DATE JANUARY 25, 2024
   LOCATION THE WORLD
   SOURCE MOBIUS ARTISTS GROUP

Open Call for Participation in Collaborative Performance Art Project
P.O. Box 391106
by Jimena Bermajo

Submission Deadline: January 25th, 2025

I invite individuals from all walks of life to participate in a collaborative performance art piece.
Drawing from my experiences as both an educator and a perpetual student, this project seeks to capture the excitement and discovery inherent in creative assignments. It’s also an homage to the playful, interactive tradition of mail art.

Participants are invited to submit instructions for performance actions via snail mail. This project not only opens the door for a variety of ideas to emerge from unexpected sources but also underscores the value of community in the creative process. By reaching out to any and all collaborators in this egalitarian fashion, it provides a platform for voices that might otherwise go unheard, fostering a collective artistic journey that transcends individual boundaries.

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